Thursday, 13 February 2014

We've now converted 77% of LibreOffice’s classic fixed widget size and position
.src format elements to the
GtkBuilder .ui format.

Using the guesstimate tool ./bin/count-todo-dialogs the current status is:

666 .ui files currently existThere are 96 unconverted dialogsThere are 93 unconverted tabpagesAn estimated additional 189 .ui are requiredWe are 77% of the way through.

What makes this mini-milestone interesting to me is that there are less
that 200 to go now, and
there are less than 100 of each of the two categories of elements
remaining.

The latest of this latest bunch of conversions is the conversion of the pivot table dialog which has the side effect that the pivot table dialog now fits into a 768 pixel tall netbook screen when in expanded mode.

Wednesday, 5 February 2014

My FOSDEM2014 LibreOffice .ui format a11y notes for developers presentation is available now. Basic notes on the importance of setting mnemonics and how to migrate pre-existing accessibility relations out of explicit c++ code and into GtkBuilder a11y markup.